Twenty-five years ago, the first so-called high temperature superconductor was discovered — unexpectedly, almost out of nowhere. Suddenly, the interest of physicists all over the world in the phenomenon of superconductivity was re-ignited (click …
Continue readingHarper Valley: Tales From The Project – #1
I’m in the projects! BC Housing came through, finally, after enlisting the help of an NDP MLA who addressed my physical and mental health concerns to the health branch of housing. Who would have known they had a health branch? But that’s one of the things about B.C.’s Housing and Social Underdevelopement…it’s a huge puzzle […]
From the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg
12 Holberg Suite op. 40 – Sarabande by Orwell’s Bastard Some hauntingly beautiful stuff from Grieg, who might be better known for Peer Gynt. If I recall correctly, though, the CBC used to use another passage from the Holberg Suite as the signature …
Continue readingA word from the Norwegian Party
As I said, not going to jump into that cesspool. Just trying to help make the Norway conversation about something else. Not like the assholes are going to change their minds or their narrative or anything.Related posts:From the Norwegian composer Edvar…
Continue readingIsn’t it good, Norwegian wood …
It’s all been said. Nothing to add.How about we just ignore that hateful bald fuckhead?Related posts:From the Norwegian composer Edvard GriegA word from the Norwegian Party
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: The debate begins
Earlier this week, Gary Mason asked whether there would be any serious debate over the CETA. In case there were any doubt, Robert Chisholm provides the answer:These deals can create jobs or ship them overseas. They can foster growth that supports our s…
Continue readingWankers of the Week: Oslo Burning edition
Crappy weekend, everyone! And a special shout-out to my dear readers in Norway, which is the 20th most-frequent country of origin for visits here, according to my ClustrMap. Damn, it really IS a crappy weekend for you folks, isn’t it? Oslo looks eerily like Oklahoma City right now. I couldn’t be sadder or more disgusted […]
Continue readingcmkl: Preparing for an upgrade
Back in the days when my server was in my basement, upgrading the OS was a bit of an adventure, but it never felt terribly scary. I mean, the backup machine, with all the data and more or less a mirrored operating system was sitting right beside the pr…
Continue readingI think i’d fall under the heading of unwanted sympathizer…
:)s’aright…i still thought they seem/ed fascinating…Anarcho-punk zine PunkWay #6, 2011 (full english version) We do not need sympathizers. We do not need someone who like our magazine. We do not need people who carry it in a backpack. We need tho…
Continue reading~Test~
♥ Just wanted to see if this old thang will still fire up and run, or if its piston rings are so rusted out from lack of use that they’re permanently cemented to its bloggy cylinder walls… W00T! So far so good… now let’s road test the audiovisual capability with this astonishing vid of me […]
Montreal Simon: Michael Coren and Right Wing Syndrome
Well as just about everybody knows by now, the Christianist Gollum Michael Coren crawled out of his cave hole anal orifice and laid this stinky turd.But not before looking like a complete idiot: No you don’t you bloody fool !!!…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On revocability
Dr. Dawg has a post worth reading on the Cons’ purification strategy. But let’s take a closer look at part of that plan which I’ve only dealt with in snark form so far:The federal government believes some 1,800 people have obtained their Canadian citiz…
Continue readingwmtc: to anyone trying to use the massacre in norway as a justification for abolishing gun control
Regarding the horrific massacre in Norway, some people are apparently making statements like this: “If that had happened in Texas, the shooter would have lasted 30 seconds before dozens of regular folks with guns took him out.”Texas has a rate of death…
Continue readingCould the Left be right?
Well, duh. [H/t Marie Ève, b/c]…
Continue readingCathiefromCanada: Triple Putz-Lutz
At the Mahablog, commenter gulag describes how right-wingers are greeting the news that the Norway terror attacker was right-wing extremist:They perform what I call “A Triple Putz-Lutz.”This maneuver is not as difficult as it sounds, and happens pr…
Continue readingThe great Conservative purification ritual
The Harper government is out to purify the country—to make it, at least figuratively, immaculate (without stain), or as the cynical might put it, whiter than white. How else can one interpret all these recent and obviously related initiatives—to revoke…
Continue readingMediabuzzard.com: Nobody does terrorism quit like an Arab/Muslim
At least according to Macleans contributor Colby Cosh … Breivik employed the Palestinian logic, hitherto almost unknown amongst Western-style spree killers (though implemented at Columbine), of the delayed second attack that specifically takes advantage of the chaos of the first. Indeed, he seems to have contemplated a third attack by
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: Political Rights
My condolences to the families of the 92 people killed in the Norway attacks. It is a horrible thing to kill children and terrible to kill fellow human beings in the first place.
News has come out that the killer belonged to party promoting intoleranc…
Continue readingCoren Seems To Think We, Progressives, Are ‘Sewers’ And Please Let’s Not Forget The Victims of The Senseless Tragedy in Norway and May They Never Lose Their Resolve
Jymn published the vile and despicable blogging of Michael ‘cue-ball’ head Coren, earlier today; that miserable blog where he seems to imply that those Norwegian victims seemed to deserve what happened to them. Now, in Coren’s comment section, Coren seems to be calling those of us who dare to criticize him or anyone . . . → Read More: Coren Seems To Think We, Progressives, Are ‘Sewers’ And Please Let’s Not Forget The Victims of The Senseless Tragedy in Norway and May They Never Lose Their Resolve
Continue readingAnders Behring Breivik: a Norwegian Timothy McVeigh? UPDATED: "some kind of Oklahoma City-type" device used in explosions
Michelle Malkin, Pam Geller et al. have been screaming “Jihad” all day over the bombings in Norway.Oops.A right wing nationalist with an animus towards Muslims? And a Christian conservative? Oh my.UPDATE: Breiviks’s a Pam Atlas fan! But he really has a…
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